The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-04-29
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Women OF Moro or Less Fame.
The president is an expert in rose garden
Ing.
Mark Twain talls Of endowing home TO
pumped out humorists.
Gen. Doulanger's wife Isl rabid later O
England and everything English.
Smith Higgins Is the king Of the dry good
business Of New York and worth $50. 100000
NJ. dc Lcsscps Is about to bring out n vol
ume of "Souvenirs' covering period of forty
years in his e'entful life.
Ahmed Ben Ahmar, al Algerian who ha'
lust died. killed eighty lions and as many
panthers during his time.
Comedian w. j. Florence is going to Lon
don soon, and while there will he the guest OF
Henry Irving
The health of James d. Fish continues tc
grow worse, and it is thought that he will be
pardoned to avoid his death in prison.
Anna Dickinson says she has had scv.
eral offers to go upon the dramatic stage.
She thinks she will 60 to Europe.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker carries the
idea of female emancipation SO far as to de-
mand that half the police force in large cities
consist of women.
The Cardiff Ovales) Western Mail an
nounces the death ut the age of ca Of Mr.. c.
James Dyson Pcrrins, of the firm of lea G;
Perrins, the makers of tho famous Worccs.
ter sauce
A. ]. Drexel, Phiiadelphia's millionaire
banker, has built Greek temple Of cXqui
sitely carved white Italian marble to DO used
as mausoleum. Tho floor is seven feet
thick.
Phllippotcaux, the celebrated French
painter, whose "Siege Of Paris" has been
greatly admired in this country, snow paint
ing cyclorama of Niagara Falls.
The widow Of Anthony Trollope is described
as C charming old lady with lovely white
hair. She is still one Of the lights Of the
literary society in London.
Friar Anderledy, the successor of Friar
Beckx as superior general of the Society of
Jesuits, is famous as linguist He can speak
and write every important language in the
world.
Bob Ford, who killed Jesse James, is en-
ployed as waiter in Santa Fe hotel Bob
Lttell and another member of the old James
gang arc also in Santa Fe, dead broke, and
hangers on about the saloons.
Mrs. Helen Cougar has sent an open lette,
to the women of Kansas, who are to vote in
the municipal elections, saying: "You will
be required to give your name. Do not give
your husbands name or your pet name, but
the one by which you were christened."
Senator and Mrs. Leland Stanford spent
Monday in Albany perfecting arrangements
for the Lathrop Memorial Home for aged
women. While there Senator Stanford said
that during his Boston visit he had decided on
the plans for the Stanford university build
ings. The buildings will be grouped in
quadrangle, will be constructed of California
sandstone, and will be Moorish in design
Work upon seven of the buildings will be be-
gun this summer.
Gen. Sheridan has sunny corner room in
the new war department building fitted up
with furniture Of his own choosing. Several
cabinets are filled with Indian pottery and
curios, and the walls are covered with paint
ings Of western scenery with bufRalos and
Indians in the foreground. Black Kettles
war belt is as dear to him as a peachblow
vase, and Sioux war club is the chief treas
ure in the collection.
Adelina Patti is in her 18th year and Lilli
Lehman in her 18th. Both are singing
superbly, and immense audiences are spell
bound by their beautiful voices. The fact,
says The Musical Courier, is lesson for
young vocalists who are ambitious TO be full
fedged soloists in few summers, and who
expect to acquire before they are Is what can
alone come with long experience and normal
development.
Mr.. S. c. Lister, the silk king" of Eng
land, is more than 20 years old, but stout and
hearty, rnd busy every day with the concerns
of bis great factories and landed estates. He
invented wool combing by machinery, velvet
and plush making by machinery, and the
utilization of silk waste. He spent $4,000, 900
in developing those industries, and has made
more than S250,O00 year out Of each of
them. He says he never went in for any
thing In which he did not confidently see over
$3.50 900 year.